Hope you have been able to administer more caffeine and are off the critical list.
I hear you on the waste management. We don't have collection service, just the dump (aka central collection location) but our town board did a similar screw up by going the cheaper must be better route. We voted them out. We now have a much better hauler AND new compaction equipment, more dumpsters and better service for only a slight cost increase. Only drawback is no more "picking" in the large bins but that was because of one single local old fart that was cleaning out all the salvage scrap that had been originally worked into the contract cost by the hauler (we get all the scrap metal, you get a price break). Used to, if you knew you were hauling something good to the dump (which a lot of the vacation home/cabin folks around the lake did) you just sat it beside the correct dumpster and whoever was able to make use of it was welcome to it. Thanks to that one greedy old fart (and the dump worker that let him get away with it) there is no more "local" recycling allowed. Shame because a lot of that stuff isn't any good to the hauler but might be to kept out of the landfill by a local. We salvaged a lot of building materials from there in the past and payed it forward by sitting aside some furniture pieces etc.
No problem. I had posted about this once before on here somewhere, just don't make a big deal about it. CML stands for chronic myeloid leukemia. Had it for a long time. No cure YET but it just might be getting close but in the mean time in very recent years there have been huge strides made in drugs that can keep it under control to the point that many of us are in what is referred to as chemical remission (aka PCRU). As long as you take the oral chemo drug the CML stays undetectible. Downside is the drugs can create their own set of nasty problems (not to mention are insanely expensive). Anyway, quite a few of us that fit the pretty tight protocol requirements are now in a clinical trial to see if you can stop taking the drug(s) and still maintain remission. There is some risk involved but many, like myself, think it's worth it if we are able to stop taking the drugs and give our bodies a chance to recover, even if it's just for a little while.
Besides, I see it as an opportunity in some small way to "pay it forward" for all those that literally put their lives on the line in the original clinical trials (and the new ones as they continue to research new therapies) that developed these drugs keeping me alive this long. Who knows? What if some of us actually make it years instead of months? (A few already have in the small European trials but they have also had some catastrophic fails) That just might open the final door!!!
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